On Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > There are some pages that explain the algorithms in detail, but I'm > not smart enough to evaluate their security and efficiency just by > looking at the algorithms.
Go with Elgamal if you want that every OpenPGP impleentaion can cope with it. (I usually use RSA because it is a bit faster). > I know that RSA was published in 1977, and the patent on it ran out > in 2000. ElGamal is from 1984, so if there's a patent on it, will > it expire/has it expired in 2007? The DH patent expired in April 1997 which was the reason I started with GnuPG in the same year. Shalom-Salam, Werner -- Die Gedanken sind frei. Auschnahme regelt ein Bundeschgesetz. _______________________________________________ Gnupg-users mailing list Gnupg-users@gnupg.org http://lists.gnupg.org/mailman/listinfo/gnupg-users
